An Impossible Future

I rolled down the car window, letting the cold wind rush in, clearing my head.

Alistair's voice, laced with danger, drifted over. I turned to look at him.

Our eyes met—his gaze was deep and impossible to read.

The wind whipped my hair around, the cold biting through me, and I quickly rolled the window back up.

"Are you that scared?" Alistair asked, his voice softening as he noticed the panic on my